The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh / The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge

[Ishtar's Lament.]

119. "Verily the former dispensation is turned into mud,

120. Because I commanded evil among the company of the gods.

121. When I commanded evil among the company of the gods,

122. I commanded battle for the destruction of my people.

123. Did I of myself bring forth my people

124. That they might fill the sea like little fishes?"